omgwtf

[slam]

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090128/164717/

The University of California, Berkeley succeeded in the experiment of controlling a live rhinoceros beetle by radio and disclosed the video of the experiment at the MEMS 2009 academic conference taking place in Sorrento, Italy.

AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[mrjohnchimpo]

Big Science is going to destroy us all.

[bubz_bluez]

they'll sell it to the military
maybe useful....to them....
interesting creation though

[Diamond Vision]

wasn't it on this board that had the video of the wasp that could sting a scorpion in it's nerve center and then "ride" it back to it's nest to be consumed by it's maggoty wasp children? How is this any different. When it's a live rhinoceros, then I'll be impressed.

[slam]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17895-freeflying-cyborg-insects-steered-from-a-distance.html

remote controlled bugs. it's for real now.

[Soul Queen]

That's pretty cool!

[Ag Au]

apparently we might be controlled by parasites, so i guess this just continues the cycle.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/09/25

The Scratch

When executive producer Ellen Horne was expecting a baby, she really had no particular intention of becoming a self-made expert on a parasite named Toxoplasma Gondii. Robert Sapolsky explains to us why Ellen had reason to worry when she was scratched by her cat, and he traces the unlikely path that the parasite might follow, right up to the point that it rewires a rat's brain. Fuller Torrey details Toxoplasma's potential associations with other human disorders, possibly even schizophrenia.

[slam]

cool link Ag Au. for those who just want to hear the toxoplasma story, it's the last piece of the segment.